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Accident | |
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Date | September 26, 1978 |
Summary | Crashed into a populated bar, caused by wake turbulence from an L-1011 jet |
Site | Barrio Obrero in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico 18°26′24″N 66°00′43″W / 18.440°N 66.012°W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Beech 18 |
Operator | Air Caribbean |
Registration | N500L |
Flight origin | Ramey Air Base, Aguadilla |
Destination | Isla Verde International Airport, San Juan |
Passengers | 5 |
Crew | 1 |
Fatalities | 6 |
Survivors | 0 |
Air Caribbean Flight 309 was a domestic, non-scheduled airline flight by Puerto Rican airline Air Caribbean, which on September 26, 1978, crashed as it was preparing to land at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (then known, unofficially, as Isla Verde International Airport) in San Juan, after a flight from Ramey Air Force Base (what is now known as Rafael Hernandez Airport) in Aguadilla, killing all six occupants of the aircraft and injuring several customers of a Barrio Obrero bar over which the airplane fell.[1]